Downton Abbey Season 6 and Lady Sinderby invite the Granthams to the country estate they've hired for some driven grouse shooting; their snobbish butler Stowell (Alun Armstrong) resents having to serve Tom, tries to ignore him, and is rude to the other servants, who conspire to take revenge. When Thomas is insulted by an irate Lord Sinderby at the dinner table, he gets a dangerous secret from a tipsy Stowell, and arranges for his lordship's former lover and illegitimate child to turn up. Luckily, Rose defuses the situation, earning her father-in-law's gratitude. The Dowager Countess reunites Prince Kuragin and his estranged wife,Downton Abbey Season 6 and negotiates the continuing needling between Spratt and Denker, who try to do each other down. Carson and Mrs Hughes are choosing a B&B to run together, but Mrs Hughes reveals she has no money, having had to spend it on looking after her sister, who is mentally disabled; this problem is solved when Carson reveals he bought the property in both their names; he proposes to her, and she accepts. Isobel refuses to marry Lord Merton, to his great distress, because she doesn't want to come between him and his sons. A second footman is engaged: Andy, the temporary one they had in London, much to Thomas's delight.